ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — It's a tale as old as time itself: Isaac Newton sat under a tree, got hit in the head with an apple and came up with the theories of gravity and motion. So, the story itself may ...

What could be more familiar than gravity? Drop something and gravity pulls it to the floor, right? And in school we learn that gravity is what guides the moon in orbit around Earth, and Earth in its ...

The seeds for the idea were planted when a student picked up an apple. The fruit had fallen from a special tree – a clone of the apple tree that inspired Sir Isaac Newton’s theory of gravity, ...

Einstein's Theory of General Relativity, an immensely important update to Newton's Law of Universal Gravitation, is currently our best approximation of how the universe ticks. But there are some holes ...

What if gravity repelled instead of attracted? This video explores how repulsive gravity could have shaped the history of the universe. Gravity was traditionally defined by Isaac Newton’s Law of ...

This direct descendant of the Newton apple tree was grafted and grown at Musser Fruit Research Center and will be planted on Clemson’s main campus. Clemson University The seeds for the idea were ...